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One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

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Larry Wall
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 27
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Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.
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Just don't create a file called '-rf.'
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A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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We're really serious about reinventing everything that needs reinventing.
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Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.
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We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.
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Psychotics are consistently inconsistent. The essence of sanity is to be inconsistently inconsistent.
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Reserve your abuse for your true friends.
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The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.
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Natural languages generally are not designed by humans, they're just designed by the participants and you say something new and somebody else says, Oh, that's a cool way to say it, and the next thing you know, everyone is saying it because it's shiny.
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
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I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
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